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Guardians of the Transcendent
An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community
Av Anne Vallely
Inbunden, 2002
1006 kr
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Itinerant white-robed ascetics represent the highest ethical ideal among the Jains of rural Rajasthan. They renounce family, belongings, and desires in order to lead lives of complete non-violence. In their communities, Jain ascetics play key roles as teachers and exemplars of the truth; they are …
Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana
The Encounter Between the LoDagaa and 'the World on Paper'
Av Sean Hawkins
Inbunden, 2002
1181 kr
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This book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology – the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium …
Cultural World in Beowulf
Av John M Hill
Häftad, 1995
445 kr
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Beowulf is one of the most important poems in Old English and the first major poem in European vernacular language. It dramatizes behavior in a complex social world-a martial, aristocratic world that we often distort by imposing on it our own biases and values. In this cross-disciplinary study, …
Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession
Häftad, 1993
443 kr
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On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a …
Between History and Histories
The Making of Silences and Commemorations
Häftad, 1997
456 kr
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Since the 1980s historians have been influenced by two anthropological concepts: cultural distance and awareness of small-scale interactions. Recent work, however, has shifted away from these notions. We now see that cultures cannot be studied as units with internal coherence and that the microcosm …
Mal'uocchiu
Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress
Av Sam Migliore
Häftad, 1997
359 kr
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The evil eye has received considerable attention in the literature of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and medicine. Researchers have attempted to identify and explain this essentially ambiguous and variable phenomenon from a number of perspectives – as a culture-bound syndrome, an idiom of …
Rock Where We Stand
An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland
Häftad, 2000
443 kr
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Bay St. George in western Newfoundland is a region characterized by a boom and bust economy and shaped by the establishment of the Earnest Harmon American Airforce Base. This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood, …
'Being Alive Well'
Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being
Häftad, 2000
401 kr
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'Being Alive Well': Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being is a critical medical anthropological analysis of health theory in the social sciences with specific reference to the James Bay Cree of northern Quebec. In it the author argues that definitions of health are not simply reflections of …
Guardians of the Transcendent
An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community
Av Anne Vallely
Häftad, 2002
485 kr
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Itinerant white-robed ascetics represent the highest ethical ideal among the Jains of rural Rajasthan. They renounce family, belongings, and desires in order to lead lives of complete non-violence. In their communities, Jain ascetics play key roles as teachers and exemplars of the truth; they are …
Maps of Experience
The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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In many North American indigenous cultures, history and stories are passed down, not by the written word, but by oral tradition. In Maps of Experience, Andie Diane Palmer draws on stories recorded during travels through Secwepemc – or Shuswap – hunting and gathering territory with members of the …
House of Difference
Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada
Av Eva Mackey
Häftad, 2002
415 kr
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The unexpected global rise of intolerant nationalism at the end of the twentieth century has received much attention, and yet intolerance also manifests itself in more subtle ways, even in nations such as Canada, with its mythologized history of tolerance and its official policies of …
Revenge of the Windigo
The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
Häftad, 2004
513 kr
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What is known about Aboriginal mental health and mental illness, and on what basis is this 'knowing' assumed? This question, while appearing simple, leads to a tangled web of theory, method, and data rife with conceptual problems, shaky assumptions, and inappropriate generalizations. It is also the …
Irish Travellers
Racism and the Politics of Culture
Häftad, 2003
430 kr
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The Travelling People constitute a Gypsy-like minority population in Ireland that has been a long-standing target of racism and assimilative state settlement policies. Using archival and ethnographic research, Jane Helleiner's study documents longstanding anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and …
Irish Working Class
Explorations in Political Economy and Hegemony, 1800-1950
Häftad, 2006
533 kr
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In An Irish Working Class, Marilyn Silverman explores the dynamics of capitalism, colonialism, and state formation through an examination of the political economy and culture of those who contributed their labour. Stemming from the author's academic research on Ireland for over two decades, the …
Kaleidoscopic Odessa
History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine
Häftad, 2008
442 kr
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The recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run through the former Soviet republic. Examining Odessa, the Black Sea port that was once the Russian Empire's southern window onto Europe, Kaleidoscopic …
Beyond Bodies
Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania
Av Todd Sanders
Häftad, 2008
429 kr
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For over a century, the Ihanzu of north-central Tanzania have conducted rainmaking rites. As with similar rites found across sub-Saharan Africa, these rites are replete with gender, sexual, and fertility motifs. Social scientists have typically explained such things as symbolizing human bodies and …
Invaders As Ancestors
On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes
Av Peter Gose
Häftad, 2008
471 kr
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Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders …
Magic Mountains
The Liberal Ethic and the Spirit of Medicine in Switzerland
Inbunden, 2027
819 kr
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Complementary and alternative medicine are extremely popular in Switzerland. The Magic Mountains contextualizes these practices with respect to the Swiss way of life, gaining deeper insight into the conditions, policies, and culture that sustain this flourishing. The book offers a window into the …
Minority Condition
Solidarity and Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in Modern Britain
Häftad, 2027
616 kr
Kommande
In the past decade, British and broader European political discourses have involved a range of debates drawing attention to the discrimination of minoritized groups, as well as to the historical circumstances that had led to its emergence. Some of these analyses involved a strong comparative …
From Equality to Inequality
Social Change Among Newly Sedentary Lanoh Hunter-Gatherer Traders of Peninsular Malaysia
Häftad, 2011
457 kr
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The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the …
'We Are Still Didene'
Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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Detailing the history of the aboriginal village of Iskut, British Columbia over the past 100 years, ‘We Are Still Didene’ examines the community's transition from subsistence hunting to wage work in trapping, guiding, construction, and service jobs.Using naturally occurring, extended transcripts of …
Land of Weddings and Rain
Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania
Häftad, 2015
471 kr
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In The Land of Weddings and Rain, Gediminas Lankauskas examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding – religious and civil ceremonies, “traditional” imagery and practices, and the conspicuous consumption of domestic and imported goods – in the context of the Western-style modernization …
Dimensions of Development
History, Community, and Change in Allpachico, Peru
Häftad, 2012
359 kr
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Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands. Susan Vincent examines four aid projects in the area, each following distinct international trends, that took place between 1984 and 2008 within the context of wider state and global …
People of Substance
An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
Häftad, 2012
387 kr
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People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves ‘People of the Center. ’ Carlos David LondoÑo Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating to selfhood, social organization, livelihood, …
Being Maori in the City
Indigenous Everyday Life in Auckland
Häftad, 2013
429 kr
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Indigenous peoples around the world have been involved in struggles for decolonization, self-determination, and recognition of their rights, and the Māori of Aotearoa-New Zealand are no exception. Now that nearly 85% of the Māori population have their main place of residence in urban centres, …
Hakkas of Sarawak
Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia
Häftad, 2013
373 kr
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This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at …
We Are Now a Nation
Croats Between 'Home and Homeland'
Häftad, 2013
373 kr
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The Yugoslav War of Succession had untold ramifications for those living in the embattled region. What often goes overlooked, however, is the impact that the war had on people from the former Yugoslavia who were living abroad. We are Now a Nation considers the effect that the war and the …
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
E-bok, 2014
554 kr
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The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a “cradle land” in the plains of Turkana. In Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro, …
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro
African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
E-bok, 2014
542 kr
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The Jie people of northern Uganda and the Turkana of northern Kenya have a genesis myth about Nayeche, a Jie woman who followed the footprints of a gray bull across the waterless plateau and who founded a “cradle land” in the plains of Turkana. In Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro, …
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost
E-bok, 2015
391 kr
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How do Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradictions of their own faith while remaining faithful to their religious identity? Bringing together the anthropology of Christianity and the anthropology of ethics, Girish Daswani’s Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the compromises with the …
